1923

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Because it's there.

George Mallory

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Upon being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.

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Mallory, George. "Climbing Mount Everest is Work for Supermen." New York Times, 18 Mar. 1923.

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A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Toward an Architecture

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Corbusier, Le. Vers une Architecture. Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1923.

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Corbusier, Le. Toward an Architecture. Getty Research Institute, 2007.

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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. "The Function and the Ends of Law." Dec. 1923, Yale University Law School, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Dreams

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

George Santayana

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Santayana, George. Scepticism and Animal Faith. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable And Company, 1923, ch. 9.

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

The Dance of Life

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Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 2.

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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. "Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent]." Da Gerarchia. Mar. 1923.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by William Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, preface.

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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 5.

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It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." The Royal College of Surgeons Annual Dinner. 14 Feb. 1923, London, England, UK.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." A Book of Words. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

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To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Marcus Garvey

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Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 1, The Universal Publishing House, 1923, ch. 2.

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Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Die vierte Elegie [Fourth Elegy]." Duineser Elegien [Duino Elegies]. Insel-Verlag, 1923.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies, translated by David Young. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

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Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity.

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 8.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Asquith

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Asquith, Herbert. Quoted in Observer. 15 Apr. 1923.

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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "I Know I Am But Summer." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Havelock Ellis

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Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 3.

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Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand hath provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm

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Great is Thy Faithfulness

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Chisholm, Thomas. Great is thy Faithfullness. Hope Publishing, 1923.

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Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain
Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "To Earthward." New Hampshire. Henry Holt, 1923, st. 5, I. 1.

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Frost, Robert. "To Earthward." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 5, I. 1.

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